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Federal income tax paid/AGI, I don't think there are.
I'll have to back off my "no one". I don't know that. It's probable that across the entire tax paying population, there are some. But they are very few.
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Very few. The highest bracket is 39.6%, and that is on ordinary income over $400K. You would have to have a lot of income in that top bracket to average out the lower rates on the first $400K. But there are people in that income range that pay over 50% in total taxes, including federal, state, and local.
Anyone making that much is probably paying a lot of it as capital gains tax, which is 20% for the highest earners. And they are paying a good tax accountant to find ways to avoid taxes. In Trump's leaked 2005 tax return, he paid an over-all rate of about 24% on many millions.
